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Tough decision, and i voted against the bill tonight. you know, while it eases -- i actually think "the new york times" described it the best this morning as a minimalist budget deal. and while it does ease the across-the-board indiscriminate cuts, the sequester, in fact, we have seen an unbelievable erosion of the priority of this nation in education and health care, child. head start, biomedical research. they suffered such a blow over the last decade that there is no ability, in fact, to increase any of these efforts over the next several years. and my view is that the sequester cuts ought ...

For any jobs package that would bring that 7% unemployment down. there's protection, what i call election protection, because there's not going to be a shutdown, which the republicans know is terribly unpopular. so i'm trying to figure out, where is the victory here for the democrats? i mean, in a deal there is always winners and losers. there's people that go in the back room and start high-fiving one another. i just don't think the democrats are high-fiving one another right now. >> well, you know, maybe not a high-five. maybe a high one or two. because there are sequester cuts that are bein...

Republicans and a lot of people who are on the military lady committees, obviously the pentagon and those in the defense industry really hate those sequester cuts, that there was going to be something of a rebellion and his argument is this is the best we can. do do you think you could have negotiated a better deal with patty murray? >> doing nothing maintains the sequester. it is to undo the limited spending cuts of the sequester. if the leadership was really committed to the sequester which they claim to have been for three years, or two and a half years. then the crowning achievement of rep...

Thing, a deficit reduction package is very misleading. >> i think it was call the worst least option even those who are saying it should pass are not saying it is a great deal. paul ryan's argument is, this is the best that can be done right now. you know that appropriate raters, both democrats and republicans and a lot of people who are on the military lady committees, obviously the pentagon and those in the defense industry really hate those sequester cuts, that there was going to be something of a rebellion and his argument is this is the best we can. do now you think you could have negotia...

Ideology or a shift in the way that the caucus is going to attempt to govern. the fact that we have a budge set a great thing. we need to underscore that. >> that's what martha stewart would call a good thing. >> it's a good thing. but what we know is that the philosophy remains, that the republicans are still very resistant to doing things to enhance the american public's ability to thrive and instead they're focusing on how to save corporations and the wealthy essentially. that's what we saw with these cuts. >> when you go to saving the cuts, you wrote a piece today that got some interest. t...